There were supposed to be 8 100s for the pattern spotters. Given the intervals, it was a 75 minute workout, which I did not get in the pool early enough to finish ... and I blew up on #4.

I didn't really understand the 80,90,100 progression on the back half of the broken swims and what the front half was supposed to be, so I pushed the front half and dialed back the back half some.

The second 50 of the broken 100s were 100% effort, but with only 5s rest, weren't that close to the first 50. My goal was to break 30 4x and call an end to the set. Attempting to break 30 on the second 50s probably resulted in me blowing up and not breaking it on the 4th 100. I was really really hoping to break 30 four 50s in a row.

Very good set for me.

During the 100s the coach came down and asked if I was going to finish, and I told him no. He said Wednesday's are going to be distance day going forward, which I thought was funny but knew he actually meant the workouts would be closer to 4k than our typical 3k, not that is would actually be distance focused.

Yes. I only used "Zone 3" today because my "hard aerobic" term came under question. It seems to me that it is 3 zone 3 sets with a recovery set between each. Not sure it that is accurate, but I am positive I got a good workout in

Well, it definitely wasn't a recovery set, nor a creatine phosphate one either. So by default it was aerobic and a hard one at that.

I thought hard aerobic was a good name

Originally Posted by quicksilver

When is your next meet so you can see the results of all this practicing?

Last weekend in Feb, two day meet. Day 1 is a normal meet, day 2 is the Republic of Texas World Short Course Yards Championships where speed suits are still legal and the meet format is the 4 50s and a 100 IM order drawn out of a hat.

Those sound like great times to me (considering that you're roughly 5 sec/100 faster than me).

Apparently that set is not new, that was just the first time I didn't modify the intervals/set so much it was no longer recognizable. And Dave did call it a distance set...

Those were great times for me. I do feel like I need to spend more time under the minute mark training 100s, but I need to spend time under the 1:05 mark first

Originally Posted by aztimm

How did the workout fit in with your training plan?

The current plan is MWF hard aerobic, TTh technique/drill, Sat sprint, Sun Speed and the goal is to make it to 5 workouts a week. So that workout was good for a hard aerobic. Now that I think about it, TTh and Sat could all be speed work, with technique after or mixed in. I don't have much motivation to get up for the 40 minute workouts Tues and Thurs and none to get up earlier than 4:18 so I could get more time in the pool.

Originally Posted by aztimm

So not anyone else to do the workout with at all? Kinda defeats the point of a team swim, doesn't it? Is there anyone even close? Are the others all faster, all slower, or a mix?

Josh wasn't there today so there was no one to race and he is the only person faster than me. There are plenty of people who can make 100s on 2:00, but it doesn't really benefit me to just have the same send offs.

I don't know what the point is of a team swim, but training with a team makes it easier to get up and swim hard than swimming solo. My solo training usually sucks unless I have a fairly immediate justification (not dying in the middle of the ocean off Waikiki was a good one).